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• The purpose of the New Zealand Picture Book Collection, He
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  classrooms with specially designed, curriculum-linked classroom activities.

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Wicked Websites Workshop Review

• 10 minutes 'exploring' site then 5 minute 6 Hats Review back to participants.
• Record your thoughts recorded directly onto this wiki page
• The page has been made public for the day of the workshop

Note: The questions are merely a guide, feel free to 'use' the

hat to scaffolding your thinking in any direction you wish!

• Useful for Junior classes
• The American accents may be a little off putting.

• Could enhance the Literacy programme

• Junior children would need to be walked through the site.

• Junior/Middle school. Especially after reading the book 'live'.

• During Literacy time

• It has 'real' photo's in some of the stories
• It is levelled

• It doesn't have a button to read the whole sentence/story (you have to click on each word to hear them individually).

• Children can relate to stories made by other children.
• Children can use it independently
• No advertising

• Voices are heavily accented

• How to open the stories and click to change the pages or read the words.

• A wide variety

• On my interactive whiteboard
• Independent activity
• Shared reading
• Follow up activity to a topic or book that is similar.

Telescopic Text

• I like the sense of intrigue I get when clicking thehighlighted words. I kept wondering when each word would lead to it's ending node. From a technical standpoint, the JavaScript code is simple enough that it will run in virtually any web browser.

• This could be used to help students explore sentence structure, and to think of alternative ways of writing their thoughts.

• This site will not work if JavaScript is turned off in the browser (Some browsers have JavaScript disabled due to security precautions.).

• They need to be able to decode words and gain meaning from the words. They also need to have appropriate motor skills for placing the mouse over and clicking on the words.

• Perhaps years 3 - 7?

• I would have students explore the site and try to predict how the sentences would change. I would also have students create their own telescopic texts, and do detailed teaching of how to make 'decision trees' and 'nodes,' which are the basis of this activity.

Create your own Superhero

Create your own Super Hero

• A bit of fun, would have high interest for kids.

• It only creates a cover, thought it wold do more.
• On the female heroes, quite pronounced feminine form.

• Great writing prompt
• Obvious use for cartooning
• Could be some good oral language prompts around super powers and heroes.
• What makes a hero? Abilities, costume, characteristics.
• Need for anonymity
• What is an Avartar....at a stretch.

• Printing Hero page would be difficult/costly.
• It's a prompting tool.....other than learning to navigate this particular site, not huge learning.

• Just learn how to navigate site.....quite easy.

• All children would enjoy it but I am put off by body forms.

• See yellow hat......

Word Safari - Spelling Support

Scholastic Story Starter interactive 'spinner'.

• Templates are user friendly
• Genre to choose from
• Spinning wheel draws in the user
• Aimed at Middle school upwards (year 4)
• Need a wide range of vocab.

• Shared writing
• Developing independent writing
• Focus on genre to develop a whole class topic

• All english students in rumaki and kura kaupapa would probably not be able to use this site independently.
• Some children may not cope with the genre if not exposed to it beforehand.

• Navigating themselves around the website.

• Year 4 upwards

• Whole class activity
• Exposure to the templates available for writing the various genre.

Spelling City

• Some games look good.

• Looks like a cost involved at some levels.
• Size of activities quite small.
• Some games too wordy, unclear instructions.

• Would need be able to read/follow instructions.

• Not enough seen to decide

• Junior Year 2 up (with teacher support and explicit whole class teaching)
• Middle/Senior school independently.

• Whole class spelling programme support.
• Follow-up activities to support reading/writing lessons.

First Blends

• The Doorway site has extensive resources

• Very basic but still very educational

• Oral language
• Writing

• Not many links to other sites

Wicked Websites Workshop Review

• 10 minutes 'exploring' site then 5 minute 6 Hats Review back to participants.
• Record your thoughts recorded directly onto this wiki page
• The page has been made public for the day of the workshop

Note: The questions are merely a guide, feel free to 'use' the

hat to scaffolding your thinking in any direction you wish!

I am an Artist

• There is a range of materials and techniques
• disadvantage that on the teacher support site there are not many pictures/visuals as examples.

• Ideas for thematic units.
• Good range of media and examples you can use.

• More suitable for senior students and teacher support.
• Lack of visual examples.
• Need to be able to read well to follow instructions.

• How to read and more around the website.

• Mostly older children and teachers too.

• To assist with step by step processes of completing a range of art activities.
• Children could use it with teacher support.

Virtual Orchestra

Interactive Junior Piano

BlueBerry Farms Eco System Simulation

(Suitable Senior Level Year 7/8)